The British pharmaceutical big AstraZeneca has chosen Barcelona to construct a big R&D hub of reference in Europe that can serve to develop new therapies, during which it may make investments as much as 800 million euros, in accordance with trade sources, and create a thousand new jobs.
The brand new European hub shall be offered on Wednesday in Barcelona, in an occasion attended by the president of the Generalitat and president of Biocat, Pere Aragonès; the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, and the president of the corporate in Spain, Rick Suárez. The worldwide president of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, met yesterday with the vice-president and Minister of Financial Affairs, Nadia Calviño, to clarify the main points.
The brand new European hub will grow to be AstraZeneca's biggest effort in Spain: yesterday the Ministry of Financial Affairs estimated that the corporate will create 1,000 jobs. The hub culminates the efforts of the Generalitat to develop within the biomedical sector. As President Aragonès just lately recalled on the presentation of the Biocat report, "Catalonia has made a dedication for a few years to base its analysis system across the life and well being of individuals." In response to knowledge from the Generalitat, Catalonia ranks sixth in Europe within the improvement of medical trials, with greater than 1,200 energetic, 50% of them in oncology, one of many areas during which AstraZeneca is strongest.
Well being sources defined that the brand new Barcelona hub is a "posthumous legacy" of Josep Baselga, one of many world's main breast most cancers oncologists, who within the remaining years of his profession was govt vp of analysis at AstraZeneca. The agency already had a analysis program with the identify of the oncologist in collaboration with the Institut d'Oncologia de la Vall d'Hebron (VHIO).
AstraZeneca defended yesterday earlier than Calviño the public-private collaboration within the improvement of latest medicines and estimated that 300 medical trials had been carried out in Spain final 12 months, during which greater than 4,500 sufferers participated.
Of the investments final 12 months in Spain, 48 million correspond to RD. A part of all the hassle that's made within the nation corresponds to its subsidiary Alexion, the American firm acquired in 2021 for greater than 33,000 million euros.
In Spain it has been rising in recent times. Final 12 months it elevated its workforce by 20% and reached 1,300 workers. The determine will improve significantly as a result of the 1,000 new hires will happen in simply 4 years.
Calviño highlighted that AstraZeneca's dedication "displays the decided drive that's being given to the fields of RD, well being and science" and recalled that "Spain already leads the world in medical trials and cutting-edge therapies". The corporate presently has 179 medical improvement packages, of which 15 are in probably the most superior phases of research. It has additionally devoted 5.5 million euros in new workplaces and the Innovation Hub in Madrid.
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